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...Jersey governor's race: Sen. Jon S. Corzine, the super-wealthy former chairman of the investment bank Goldman Sachs Group, is getting a surprisingly strong challenge from Republican Doug Forrester, a super-wealthy benefits-management executive who has antagonized conservatives with his support of abortion rights. Corzine is ahead in polls and it would be considered an upset if Forrester won in the Democratic stronghold. Kerry beat Bush in the state last year, 53 percent to 46 percent, and then-Vice President Al Gore ran ahead of Bush in 2000 by an even more commanding 56 percent to 40 percent...
When minority women open up about their extracurricular duties, however, some find their employers surprisingly receptive. Aynesh Johnson, 35, pulled long hours as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs yet found time to sit on the board of a nonprofit that aids low-income families living in a wealthy area of Manhattan. News of her altruism reached the executive suite and might have helped her land her current role as vice president of global leadership and diversity. "It's seen as a positive," she says...
Harvard’s eccentric aspiring rock-star guitarist, Anthony L. Carbone, ’06-’08, and his songwriter partner-in-crime, Evan Gentler, a recent graduate of Oberlin music college, are more focused than any yuppy dreaming of that final Goldman Sachs interview (yes, ’tis the season to be recruited for an I-bank). The duo aim to make their current rock duo Called and Careless, which Carbone somewhat clumsily describes as “progressive grunge alternative rock,” their life. “The band is my career...
...when they waited for a civil war to threaten their way of life before demanding the end of an unjust system. The passive Northern businessman was just as bad as the plantation owner. To be fair, certainly some of us do come from backgrounds where we need the Goldman Sachs job to pay off loans or to support our families. Maybe a few of us actually do need the McKinsey business experience in order to start that nonprofit that will save the world. But most who take such paths don’t have these excuses. Many of the future...
...commissioner David Stern has banned all headgear, shorts, T shirts and necklaces visible outside clothing. "Everybody has their own style," says Iverson. "That's unfair when you take that away." Nevertheless, the league's best representative of hip-hop fashion says he will obey the new rules. Next, Goldman Sachs will be banning pinstripes...